Why are you unhappy? That’s the question thirty-something midwestern Zeke Pappas asks his subjects. He’s gathering answers for his magnum opus, a study of American Unhappiness. When the novel opens we’re nearly finished with the…
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The snooze
A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with Christa where I posited that big New York Publishers like books about New York where characters just wander around in their New Yorkness being all…
Humungous fungus among us
Hey, locals with kids (or fans of middle-grade books), Kurtis is going to be reading at the Wild Rumpus tomorrow at 1 p.m. You should go! What I like so much about reading Kurtis Scaletta’s…
No such thing as just a girl
Every six months or so for the past decade, I’d randomly type ‘Elissa Schappell’ into Amazon’s search bar and cross my fingers. I kept hoping and hoping that she had released a book that some…
Not so good looking
It’s probably a good idea to bone up on the life and times of Flannery O’Connor before you dive into Ann Napolitano’s latest novel, A Good Hard Look. As a fan of O’Connor’s work, but…